"Mom, did my eldest brother and the others say anything about buying food?" Lu Qingyan took out the bedding and asked curiously while making the bed.

"I don't know. Your father and I came to your place after we talked to them." Mother Lu walked into her daughter's room, looked at the increasingly heavy rain outside and shook her head.

"I hope they can buy more." Lu Qingyan heard this and sighed thinking about the situation in the dream.

It is said that after the eldest brother of the Lu family sent his parents away, he asked his wife to take all the money in the family and called his two younger brothers to go to a village a little further away. After visiting several teams, they finally collected more than 800 kilograms of food.

They also went to their father-in-law's house to tell him, but as to whether they believed it or not, that was none of their business.

At night, they borrowed the brigade's ox cart. After making two trips back and forth, they returned the cart. Each family received more than 200 kilograms of food and went home.

"Boss, do you think what my brother-in-law said is true?" Mrs. Lu said anxiously while lying on the kang at night.

"Whether it's true or not, these grains can be kept and we can eat them slowly." Brother Lu always listens to his parents.

Now that his parents asked him to buy food, he could buy as much as he could. At worst he could just eat it slowly later. If something really happened, this would be life-saving food.

They bought a lot of food, but the same couldn't be said for the Gu family.

Old man Gu and his two sons took a leave to go to the town. Not only did they spend a lot of money on exchanging tickets, but they also failed to buy much food. This made them worried and they began to want to back down.

"Dad, why don't we not buy it? We don't have tickets, so we can't buy food at all." Gu Mingtao looked at the less than 30 kilograms of food in front of him and said with a frown.

"Dad, why don't we go to the surrounding brigades to ask? There are no food coupons in this town, and it's too difficult for us to buy food." Gu Minghai looked down at the food on the ground, his eyes rolling as he said

"Okay, go ask. If you can find it, buy more. If you can't find it, come back." Old man Gu puffed on his pipe and sighed.

"Dad, why don't you and my mom go stay with the fourth brother for a while. If anything really happens, he's the safest place." Gu Mingtao picked up the food and said as he walked home.

"No, I've been through the most difficult times. I don't believe this time will be as difficult as before." Old Man Gu shook his head firmly.

"Okay." Gu Mingtao thought that no matter what happened in the military region, there would be no shortage of food.

At least the two old people won't go hungry if they go there, but it's different in the brigade. If something really happens, there is no guarantee that they won't go hungry.

"The fourth son's wife can't do any work. If your mother and I were to go there, she would quarrel with him in a few days." Old Man Gu knew his wife's temper too well, so he didn't want to get close to the fourth son.

What if they just arrived there and lived there for two days, and the husband and daughter-in-law started quarreling? Not to mention that outsiders would laugh at them.

It’s not easy for the fourth child to be in the middle, so the two of them should just stay at home and wait until they are old.

"Yes, with my mother's personality, it's really possible." Gu Mingtao thought about his mother, and then thought about the fourth son's wife. It was indeed true.

In the past, if his wife did less work, his mother couldn't stand it and scolded her, let alone the fourth wife who couldn't do any work.

"Then don't let your wife whisper in your mother's ear. If she really gets tempted by your whispers, what will you do if you want to go to the military district?" Old Man Gu was really scared.

Just because the fourth son loves his wife so much, if he were asked to choose between his mother or his wife, he would definitely choose his wife.

By then, the old ones will be sad, and the young ones will not go home and lose contact with them, which would be really bad.

He also hoped that the fourth son would be able to raise these grandchildren so that they could also eat state-produced grain.